Talks Fail To Resolve Strike At Mexico City University

Latin

July 18, 1999

MEXICO CITY - Talks between striking students and authorities from Mexico's largest university aimed at settling an 88-day-old shutdown have collapsed, making the possibility of police action to open the campus more real. In a tense session Friday, administration representatives from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as UNAM, said they would agree to further discussions on the strikers' demands only after the students end their occupation of the vast campus in southern Mexico City.